September 2010
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Clip of the Day
I received an unexpected opportunity to make good on my only big regret in life (ie, not having recorded an album w/my band). I’m on dance hiatus to dedicate myself to this project, which will take up my spare time for a while. I’ll still be bumbling around on Floasis and updating this blog, just no longer practicing and striving to achieve greater skill levels, for at least a year.
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2010 Liquid Conference Update
A few developments have occurred since the last update on this one-of-a-kind event. Below are the latest details:
Location: Chicago, IL
Friday, October 29
Meet and Greet @ The Basement, 1415 N. Asland Ave, 6 PM to midnight, Food provided by Portillo’s; dance performances by D-Skreet and Dancing Dave of the Groovefellas, Tiny Love, LPEric, and Icon; live art by Joe Condon; and...
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Clip of the Day: Relic Digit Session
Today’s clip features a new clip of Relic, formerly of LPC, doing his unique mix of folds, digitz, and robot.
Science of Dance →
A friend passed this link to me. Interesting reading. If you want to attract the opposite sex with your dance, be sure to accentuate your core (ie, chest and hips) and neck (ie, head)!
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Body Flow #6
Having exhausted all of the techniques that I know of for creating a full-body flow illusion in previous articles, today’s article will touch on next-level areas.
This article might be premature, given the lack of practitioners of full-body liquid, but it would be silly to write this only after a dozen people become proficient at full-body liquid, something that might never happen. If...
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Body Flow #5
The body flow articles up until this point have been focused on the actual technique involved with creating body flow, but one of the advantages of a full body approach is the potential for adding a soulful groove to your liquid dance. This soulful groove provides character and emotion, expression beyond “that looks trippy.” We will explore how to implement soul in liquid by observing...
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Body Flow #4
Now that we have established a foundation to create flow with our body (see previous articles), we will explore two other techniques for involving the body in flow: contours and threads. These two techniques actually make up a large part of Skywalker’s foundation.
Contours
This is a very simple way to involve the body in flow. Here is a clip of Floasis captain Kai performing contours:
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Body Flow #3
With Body Flow articles 1 and 2, we looked at how flow can be approached in terms of shapes. The most recent Foundation Fridays article showed techniques for creating shapes through body rolls. Today, we will put this all in a liquid context.
In Foundation Fridays: Rolls, we left off with an exercise Continuous Rolls. There are some great series of continuous rolls in this clip. This exercise is...
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Foundation Fridays #3: Rolls
Today’s article explores a bit of the practical side of body flow. Yesterday’s article analyzed how a flow of shape can be created with boogaloo roll techniques, so this Foundation Friday is dedicated to the boogaloo roll.
Youtube has a ton of boogaloo roll tutorials, and I would encourage anyone with the motivation to look at them as many of them as needed to observe variations in...
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Body Flow #2
In the last article, I touched on viewing liquid flow not only as connections from hands interacting but as implied shapes as well. I provided an example of handflow with this approach in mind. In today’s article, we will expand this idea into other areas of the body.
In the picture above, we have a poorly photoshopped image of Boogaloo Sam. The yellow, blue, and teal areas in the...
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Body Flow #1
Not too much has been written on body flow, so I’m going to try and tackle this subject with my own approach, which of course is one of many. As an aside, I am not even sure people see what I see with respect to body flow. To people not thinking to look for what I see, it may just look like some smooth wave-y dancing. Hopefully, this is not the case and the body flow illusion is intuitive.
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